4They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

5那麼，你們在盛會之日，在上主的節日，可作什麼呢？

5What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord?

6因為，看，他們由毀滅裡逃走，埃及要收集他們，摩夫要埋葬他們；他們珍貴的銀器將為蒺藜所承受，他們的帳幕將被荊棘所佔有。

6For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

7懲罰的日子來了，報復的日子到了，以色列要喊說：先知是愚人，受靈感的人是瘋子！是，這是因為你的過犯繁多，因為你的罪惡重大。

7The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

8厄弗辣因窺伺先知的帳幕，在他的路上處處佈下了羅網，在自己天主的殿內只有敵視。

8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.

9他們窮凶極惡已達到極點，就如在基貝亞的時日一樣；上主必不忘他們的罪孽，必要懲罰他們的邪惡。

9They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.

10I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

11至於厄弗辣因，他們的光榮，就如飛鳥飛去，必不生產，不懷胎，不妊娠。

11As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

12即使他們把自己的子女養大，我也必使他們喪亡，一個不留；幾時我捨棄他們，他們纔是有禍的。

12And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

13厄弗辣因，一如我所見的，必使自己的子女成為獵物；厄弗辣因必把自己的子女交出屠殺。

13Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.